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🗓️ 8 July 2025
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Make no mistake -- being a farmer is hard work. Farming outfits often have to carry a huge amount of risk from one season to the next, and any number of things may ruin their prospects, from unexpected weather, market volatility and so on. To mitigate these dangers, world governments often provide funding, or subsidies, to agribusiness in order to lower risk and increase chances of farmers staying in business. In the US, these subsidies are a multi-billion dollar industry... but where does all that money actually go?
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0:00.0 | fellow conspiracy realist friends and neighbors, farmers, and non-farmers alike. |
0:06.6 | Oh, agriculture. |
0:08.2 | Back in 2020, March 11th, I believe, we got deep into the idea of subsidies and the idea of agriculture in the United States and full disclosure, we all thought it would be a little bit of a snooze fest until we got under the hood. |
0:32.6 | Yeah. Well, so if you're from, you know, a rural part of this country, or if you've lived in the Midwest for any |
0:39.1 | time, you drive by a lot of farmland. There's a ton of farmland. And it just becomes part of the |
0:47.4 | scenery, right? Part of the stuff you drive by every day. If you're not a farmer, you're working the |
0:53.2 | land in some way like that. |
0:55.3 | It's just everyday stuff. But then when you actually begin to analyze why specific crops are some of |
1:03.4 | the most things you see in that farmland, you start to realize, oh, this thing is one giant |
1:09.6 | interconnected matrix of how the United |
1:14.8 | States functions. A microcosm. Yeah, we also, by the way, now we are, we're introducing |
1:22.7 | this in 2025, a brief message of support to our friends in Utah. |
1:29.9 | Please know that the powers in control of your state government are siphoning water for |
1:37.9 | alfalfa, of all things. It's going to get wild out there. Shout out to Book of Mormon, by the way. |
1:46.1 | Oh, fantastic. |
1:47.7 | The version that just came through Atlanta was amazing, just as good as Broadway when I initially saw it. |
1:53.4 | Guys, did you see the amount of water that's being pumped into these brand new data centers for, you know know the biggest new AI servers and all this stuff |
2:03.1 | that are popping up all over the place. |
2:05.0 | Ooh, NOMS has given us a thumbs down. |
2:07.3 | Hey, |
2:07.5 | I see your thumbs down and I agree because the amount of fresh water they're pulling out of aquifers, |
2:13.7 | it's making the wells run dry in these areas. |
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